Excerpts from Huang Po’s teaching: « The only thing the adept should fear is that a single thought immediately divert him from the Way.. » Can’t this
Étiquette : prayer
My Life For 300 Dollars
Tomorrow is a big day for me,300 euros: a lot of money for a single dayStill, I can’t wrap my mind around this… My life,
Absolute
The energy spent not to move towards the AbsoluteKills us. The waste I cannot see though.On the ground, crawling and clinging, I strive, in the
A Prayer For Retreat
Open me to the understandingThat I shall never try to substitute for you, Allow me to observe whenever I cloud youwith my inelegant movements,To read
In Plain Sight
There is something that I like about meditation, that I like to share, precisely…The practice of sitting delivers secrets, Secrets that we see, that we
Less and Less
I make less and less difference between meditation and prayer. Meditation, for many, is a way of claiming to be a more « spiritual » practice than
Gratitude
I feel such gratitude towards…I don’t know. Zazen in my life is such an injection of beauty, breadth, perspective, clarity, an energetic embrace, an ocean
Daily Spadework
Spiritual fields are gigantic,You have to start clearing them somewhere.Every movement can be a prayer,I think of every move as a prayer,Aligned, you let Beauty
Prayer, Meditation: Essence Bath
Even though I made,If others have madeDifferences between prayer and meditation… I no longer do,I see nothing that prevents me today from superimposing the state
Not In This, Not In That
The beauty of prayer is not in the candle.It is a prayer in the beauty of your heart when you approach the candle to light
Our Father
By reciting the Lord’s Prayer, its first line, as my inner eyes open, a few seconds before the opening of my physical eyelids.On this step
Parting The Sea
Opening a path through the water of the Red Sea,Suddenly revealing the earth. The teaching from the parted depths of the soul appears.Moses traces the
Without Answer
Refraining from answering is a great gift from God to Man.He confronts Man with its games of projections, with its interior effusions,with the materials in
One Prayer
It is possible that a single prayer save you.Truly, a single sitting could bring forth enlightenment. In the same way that it is not impossible
Listening To Silence
When I say “listening to silence”Do you understand both sides of the practice ? Without listening,Even in the midst of the purest of all silences,The
Notes & Silence 